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Northeast Asia order after WWII: continuity, compliance, power-transition and challenges / Ming , Liu

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East Asia is now fully engaged in a competition between a rising China and the other powers—the United States and Japan—while the regional order is in a transition from a super primacy of the United States to the asymmetric bipolar structure of the United States and China. China is changing a lot in terms of capabilities and behavior; but China also shows its benevolence, such as benefit-sharing initiatives on regional institutionalization development. The “American rebalancing strategy” has partly reversed the overall situation in East Asia in favor of the United States, but as 57 countries have joined the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Beijing has now recovered some ground from this overwhelming tide of the U.S. strategy. China’s military modernization and Sino-Japanese confrontation over the Diaoyu Islands offer a big excuse and incentive for Japan’s acceleration of this process of becoming a normal country. The future of Northeast Asia lies mainly in the four variables and their interactions: the Chinese Communist Party’s capability to balance its goal of national rejuvenation and nationalistic emotion in protecting its sovereignty interests; the United States’ genuine attitude toward China’s power development; Japan’s goal of its nationalistic resurgence and its complicated strategic ties with China and South Korea; and North Korean regime stability and nuclear capability development. In spite of the Sino-American competition relations, there always exists a demand of condominium and strategic interdependence on global governance and other hot issues in the international arena. Therefore, management of China-U.S. competition is key to stability of the regional order.

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San Francisco System ; World War II ; Post - War World Order ; American Re-balancing Strategy ; Sino - American Competition ; Re-shaping the Regional Order

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San Francisco 2.0: military aspects of the U.S. pivot toward Asia / Stuart, Douglas

Stuart, Douglas	Journal Article
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2012.

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This is the third time that American policy makers have considered a pivot to Asia. This time is different, however, because it is clear that the base of gravity of the global economy is shifting from West to East. As the most powerful nation in the Asia-Pacific, the United States has an overriding national interest in the preservation of regional prosperity and order. But Washington recognizes that it can no longer impose solutions on the major governments in the region. A new U.S. strategy for the Asia-Pacific will have to take into account the very strict limits imposed on U.S. foreign and defense policies by America's relative economic decline. This means that Washington will have to convince its friends and allies to take greater responsibility for regional security. The so-called San Francisco system of U.S.-sponsored alliances will have to be transformed, in order to make it more responsive to the problems that confront America and its regional friends and allies. This essay will draw upon Joseph Nye's concept of ideal and material resources to assess the viability and adaptability of the San Francisco system. It will also consider the merits of the Pentagon's proposed AirSea Battle concept as a response to Chinese military modernization and as a source of reassurance for Washington's regional friends and allies.

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Alliances ; San Francisco System ; Obama ; US - China ; Pivot ; AirSea Battle

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Securing security through prosperity: the San francisco system / Calder, Kent E

Calder, Kent E	Journal Article
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March 2004.

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Economic Security ; Comparative Alliance Politics ; San Francisco System

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